Headlines Monday 13th October

The interview that would have killed Palin
Andrew Bolt
You think one or two of Sarah Palin’s interviews - or, in fact, just the snippets you were shown of them - prove she’s dumb?

Then check this interview with Stephane Dion, leader of Canada’s (Left-wing) Liberal Party, and see true dumb.
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Thank heavens Hollywood doesn’t run the CIA
Andrew Bolt
Given that the US has not suffered a terrorist attack on its soil since 2001, you’d think the CIA and George Bush must actually be doing something right. And given that Hollywood’s constant attempts to portray America’s fight against terrorists as more dangerous and incompetent than the terrorists themselves all flop, you’d think Tinsel-Town’s Freedom Fighters would resolve never to made another Redacted, Rendition, Syriana , In the Valley of Elah, The Kingdom or Lions for Lambs.

But no. Here comes Body of Lies, with Russell Crowe and Leonardo diCaprio, preaching the same we’re-our-own-enemy same
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OBAMA STEADY
Tim Blair
The Gallup gap remains the same
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BUBBLE BURST
Tim Blair
The silver lining becomes yet more silvery:
The economic free fall gripping the nation may bring down one of the main environmental objectives: capping the greenhouse gases that are blamed for global warming.
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HEY, O! HIRE THIS GUY!
Tim Blair
Celebrated internet fraud Charley James – Fairfax’s go-to guy for crucial Sarah Palin insights – claims to have more foreign policy experience than the Republican VP candidate:
May 1989 – Hosted a three hour dinner in Minneapolis with Boris Yeltsen …
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A REPUTABLE ARTIST
Tim Blair
Primary school shopper Bill Henson photographs a bloodied young girl and titles his work She’s been raped. It’s all part of being a reputable artist, according to Victorian Liberal leader Ted Baillieu:
Ted Baillieu has defended artist Bill Henson and the principal at the centre of the schoolyard model-scouting storm …
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HEALTHY GLOW
Tim Blair
Sure, those new energy-saving light bulbs may burn and smoke and ooze mercury, but at least they increase the risk of cancer.
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AGE CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN
Tim Blair
Can we register seven-year-olds to vote? Yes we can!
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Lesbian porn star wants name cleared
By Sean Fewster
A NEW South Wales woman, who made lesbian pornography with teenagers, will ask the High Court to clear her name so she can work with disadvantaged children.

Rebecca Jane Clarke will seek to have her conviction erased, based on a controversial ruling that sex offenders can be acquitted if they "honestly believe" their victims are more than the age of consent.

Clarke, 23, who stars in a pornographic DVD she made with two girls, both 14, will argue her name should not appear on the national sex-offender register.

If the High Court does not quash her conviction, she will be banned from working as a counsellor. - why should she be allowed to exploit more people? - ed.
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I'll shut pubs early to stop bashings, top cop vows
by Garry Linnell and Vikki Campion
THE state's most senior policeman wants pubs and clubs to close early, claiming Sydney's soaring rate of alcohol-fuelled violence is worse than Los Angeles.

Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said he was sick to death of seeing officers assaulted and backed any cutback in licensing hours.
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'Students should know Britain shaped world'
TONY Abbott says teach British history so students know where we come from - and Aboriginal and Asian history doesn't get a mention.
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'Hate' claim fires up John McCain
THE ugly legacies of a civil rights-era segregationist and a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed four girls inflame the US election campaign.
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Pensioners can't get lost in financial crisis
Just because there's a global financial crisis, doesn't mean the PM can afford to continue ignoring the needs of pensioners, argues Alan Jones.
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Green denies tree murder
Andrew Bolt
How we laughed:

THE wife of a convener of the Australian Conservation Foundation is being charged with the alleged removal of 150 trees on the couple’s Blue Mountains property.
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Mackerras: no white wives in the White House
Andrew Bolt
Tim Blair is rightly astonished by poll expert Malcolm Mackerras’s endorsement of Barack Obama
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300,000 reasons to cut immigration
Andrew Bolt
Why is the Rudd Government running the biggest immigration program in our history just when the economy is hitting a wall? Even before the financial crash, we had trouble catering to so many new arrivals - and were fast becoming less keen on importing them
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Five Hollywood lies
Andrew Bolt
Writer Andrew Klavan sits through Oliver Stone’s W, a cinematic assassination of George W Bush, and concludes:

For the past 30 years or so, Hollywood storytelling has been guided by a liberal mythos in which, for example, blacklisting communist screenwriters during the ‘50s was somehow morally worse than fellow-traveling with the Stalinist murderers of tens of millions ("Trumbo"); Che Guevara was a dashing, romantic liberator instead of a charismatic killer ("The Motorcycle Diaries"); and the worldwide violence currently being waged by Islamo-fascists is either a figment of our bigoted imaginations or the product of our evil deeds ("V for Vendetta").

Hollywood moviemakers, in other words, have been telling lies -- loudly, constantly and almost always in support of a left-wing point of view. And these lies are most prolific and tenacious when the Hollywood left is lying about itself.
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Selling ourselves as the world’s church
Andrew Bolt
Baz Luhrmann’s new ads for Tourism Australia have their critics:

TOURISM chiefs have had to defend a new $40 million advertising campaign inspired by the film Australia after an expert criticised it for targeting city-dwelling white-collar professionals to the exclusion of older tourists, families and singles.
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No finance means fewer greenhouse inventions
Andrew Bolt
The United Nation’s top warming alarmists are trying to see the silver lining in the collapse of the world financial markets
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WORD MISSING
Tim Blair
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SOYLENT STONE
Tim Blair
An eternal carbon footprint
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ALL THE WAY WITH McBAMA/PIDEN
Tim Blair